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Tag Archives: Wilhelm Uhde
“museums are just a lot of lies”
There had been nothing like it. A visual world formed literally in the image of Picasso. From fashion and department store advertising, to political caricature, the public was subsumed by these modernist forms of expression; the speed with which newlt … Continue reading
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SPIRIT WORLD: Talking With a Famished Lion About Poetry
The French painter Henri Rousseau (1844-1910) pursued an ideal in his quest to capture a spirit of innocence. While still very much rooted in French city life, and for many-years a conventional man, he nevertheless projected images of an exotic … Continue reading
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Tagged Adrian Searle, Alfred Jarry, Alice B. Toklas, Andre Derain, Arnie Greenberg, Arnold Hauser, Arsene Alexandre, Byron, Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Green, Cornelia Stabenow, Dennis Walder, Eugene Delacroix, Felix Auguste-Clement, Georges Braque, Georges Rouault, Gertrude Stein, Guillaume Apollinaire, Gustave Flaubert, Henri Matisse, Henri Rousseau, Jean Leon Gerome, Jill Fell, K. Kimberly King, Marie Laurencin, Max Weber, Nancy Ireson, Nancy Pinard, Pablo Picasso, Pam Rosenthal, Redon, Richard Jinman, Richard Powers, Robert Hughes, Roger Shattuck, Wilhelm Uhde
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TROPICS OF THE MIND: Forgotten Memories of an Ancestral Darkness
His is the simple and yet incredible story of an unworldly petit bourgeois who painted in an introverted, almost autistic manner. He himself cannot have been fully aware of what he was doing; he did not distinguish between his pictures … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Jarry, Arsene Alexandre, Asperger Syndrome, Camille Pissarro, Charles Baudelaire, Cindy Sherman, Claude Monet, Cornelia Stabenow, Damien Hirst, David Hockney, Edmond Frank, Elena L. Grigorenko, Emile Zola, Fernand Leger, Gerhard Richter, Graham Greene, Graham Greene The Heart of the Matter, Guillaume Apollinaire, Henri Rousseau, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Henry Certigny, Jackson Pollock, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Jill Fell, Joseph Brummer, Kate Bush, Marc Chagall, Max Ernst, Nancy Pinard, Odilon Redon, Pam Rosenthal, Paul Cezanne, Paul Gauguin, Paul Klee, Paul Verlaine, Pierre Loti, Richard Jinman, Richard Powers, Robert Delaunay, Roger Shattuck, Salvador dali, Shakespeare, Vincent Van Gogh, Wilhelm Uhde
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RUNNING WITH LIONS:The Enigma of “The Idiot”
For all of them Henri Rousseau was the “venerable child” of art, the great primitive who lived and worked beyond the reach of damaging speculation and sophistication, at one with himself, original, as nature had made him. Conscious, deliberate action … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Jarry, Allen Ginsberg, Andre Malraux, Andre Salmon, Cornelia Stabenow, Cubism, Dostoevski, Edgar Degas, Fernando Botero, Franz Marc, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Giorgio de Chirico, Guillaume Apollinaire, Henri Rousseau, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Max Beckman, Max Beckmann, Odilon Redon, Pablo Picasso, Paul Gauguin, Puvis de Chavannes, Robert Delaunay, Roger Shattuck, Wassily Kandinsky, Wilhelm Uhde
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ROUSSEAU & THE COUCH IN THE JUNGLE: Landscape of Hallucination
It’s been said, oversimplistically but sympathetically, that “he didn’t know the rules well enough to break them”. But of course there are no rules in the kingdom of the imagination.He knew he was a babe in the woods of high … Continue reading
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Tagged Adrian Searle, Alfred Jarry, Andre Breton, Arsene Alexandre, August Macke, Christopher Green, Cornelia Stabenow, Douglas Cooper, Emil Nolde, Eugene Delacroix, Franz Roh, Gauguin, Guillaume Apollinaire, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Herbie Hancock, Herschel B. Chipp, Herschel Browning Chipp, Jean Cocteau, Jean Leon Gerome, Jill Fell, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Matisse, Michael Hoog, Montague Ullman, Odilon Redon, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, Paul Klee, Pechstein, Robert Delaunay, Roger Shattuck, Seurat, Sigmund Freud, Signac, Virginia Chandler, Wassily Kandinsky, Wilhelm Uhde
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THE TOLL COLLECTOR: Riddle of the Dreamworld
What was a nude on a sofa doing in the middle of the jungle? It was all quite simple, said Henri Rousseau: “You will no longer find that amazing in the future?” The artist’s ability to combine naturalistic elements in … Continue reading
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Tagged Adrian Searle, Andre Breton, Andre Malraux, Andrew Graham Dixon, Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Green, Dietmer Elger, Fernand Leger, Franz Roh, G. Fernandez, Guillaume Apollinaire, Henri Rousseau, Hershel Browning Chipp, Jan van Eyck, Mark Harden, Max Ernst, Michael Hoog, Montague Ullman, Pablo Picasso, Rene Magritte, Robert Goldwater, Roger Shattuck, Virginia Chandler, Wilhelm Uhde
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Seraphine & Mystical Inner Visions
Hypnotic art. A relationship between an avant-garde art dealer and a visionary cleaning lady. There is a mystery of creativity and the resilience of one woman’s spirit. It is also a marginalized artist and deeply eccentric individual presented as a … Continue reading
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